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if I had fever.
Feb 3. [[underlined in red]] Believe have influenza. [[/underlined in red]] Dr. Moffet tells me [[underlined in red]] must stay in bed. [[/underlined in red]] Very light fever but feeling of broken limbs and sore throat and cough.
Feb 4. About same as yesterday but [[underlined in red]] somewhat better. [[/underlined in red]] Got up to dictate some letters. Feel easily exhausted and rather disgusted. In the mean time am reading "Peter and Joan" by Wells.
Feb 5. [[underlined in red]] Dr. Moffett tells me I must stay in bed altho' I feel [[/underlined in red]] much like walking about and [[underlined in red]] dictating letters [[/underlined in red]] besides reading On the other hand I feel rather weak and easily tired out and nervous.
Feb 6. Feel decidedly better. Less nervous. Dr. Moffett says my
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[[underlined in red]] blood pressure is below normal Fever entirely gone. [[/underlined in red]] Dr. Moffett examines lungs, heart, liver etc. says [[underlined in red]] I am O.K. [[/underlined in red]] but must keep in my bed and not take risks. I am much impressed with that book of H.G. Wells. [[underlined in red]] Peter and Joan. It is a masterpiece. even if there are many passages I do not like much. [[/underlined in red]] No wonder he is hated so much particularly in England by the outspoken way he treats men and women and institutions who have been the fetishes of respectability and tradition in conservative England. While I was reading this book particularly its later pages I could not help thinking [[underlined in red]] all the time [[/underlined in red]] of [[underlined in red]] George and Tiss. [[/underlined in red]] There are many incidents and points of view which remind me very much of all what has